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Good morning. You may have heard a saying along the lines that “when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. So when…

If there is one thing that has marked the first year of Keir Starmer’s premiership, it is a propensity for control – whether it’s managing his…

The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report…

Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”,…

Six years ago, Melbourne-based film-maker Kristina Kraskov read an article about an international Microsoft Excel competition and had two thoughts. The first: “What the hell, that…

“No one likes us, we don’t care.” It may be rousing on the stadium terraces of south London, as the signature chant for Millwall football club,…

The Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins have agreed to a trade sending shortstop Carlos Correa back to the Astros, the teams announced. There were rumblings the…

It was described as “the best job in the natural world”: an expedition botanist for Cambridge University Botanic Garden who would follow in the footsteps of…

Floods have caused extensive damage in Beijing and northern China, killing 30 people and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate. Main image: People wade through knee-high…

Las Vegas will play host to the 2026 World Cup draw on 5 December, according to multiple reports, with the Sphere hotly tipped to serve as…